Brandon Moss (GC)

Brandon Moss was awarded the George Cross for his "superhuman efforts and utter disregard for personal injury" while serving as a Special Constable with the Coventry Constabulary. [ [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/popup/zj_1_943_transcript.htm The National Archives | Research, education & online exhibitions | Exhibitions | The Art of War | Valour & Gallantry ] ]

He led two rescue attempts on houses which had been destroyed by a high explosive bomb during heavy German air raids on the 14th of November 1940, managing to free three people trapped in the rubble in the first and another person in the second after seven hours of digging through the night. He also recovered four bodies. A fractured gas main, further air raids and a delayed action bomb no more than twenty yards from the scene added to the danger of falling masonry and structural collapse. The citation for his award was published in the London Gazette on the 13th of December 1940, when he was presented with the George Cross by King George VI at Buckingham Palace.

Moss married Vera Watson and had two daughters. He died, aged 90, in Coventry on August 9, 1999. [ [http://iccoventry.icnetwork.co.uk/coventrytimes/features/tm_headline=the-man-who-risked-his-life-to-save-others&method=full&objectid=19935316&siteid=50003-name_page.html icCoventry - The man who risked his life to save others ] ]

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